Huntsville gazette., 1887-12-24
THE NEW CONGRESS.

interesting Facts Cuiled From the Latest
Edition of the Congressional Directory,
Recently Issued-A.es of Prominent
Senators and Representatives and the
Places of Their Nativity, Etc.
WASHINGTON, Dec ia perusal of the
congressional directory, recently issued,
shows that only six of the thirty ght
States have sent to the Fiftieth Congress
Senators and Representatives who are .3ll
natives of the States they represent.
These States are Maine, Delaware, Mary
land, North Carolina, South Carolina-and
West Virginia. Some of the new States
in the West, of course, have very few
natives who have ever been honored with
seats in Congress. 1t seems rather odd,
though, that so many of the older States
-. ing the Atlantic coas are represented IN
Congress by uisting gu,sned gen+iehsa EFbo
were not only born and reared in other
States, but the Eastern delegations in
clude many who were born and brought
mp in foreign lands. Senator Evarts, of
New York, was born at Boston in 1918,
and it was not until 1S41 that he removed
to New York. His honors are too well
known to be mentioned here. Senator
Hawley, of Connecticut, was born down in
North Carolina, graduated at law at Ham
ilton College, New York, in 1847, but did not
become a resident of Hartford until 1850
Like many others, he abandoned law for
Journalism, and his greatest success in
professional life has been his editorial
management of the Hartford COHrdnt
Even the ancient State of New Jersey has
outsiders for Senators. Mr.. Mcpherson is
native of New York, and did not be-
come Jersey man until 1859. Mr.. Blodg-
ett, the other Jersey Senator, saw the
light of day in New Hampshire, and lived
in the Granite State until 1866. New York,
! the Empire State, has, however, produced a
large number of men who are at present
Senator'S from other States.
The oldest men in the present Congress
are Senators Morrill, of Vermont, and
Payne, Of Ohio. They were both born in
the same year-1810. Mr.. Morrill, shows
his age more than Mr.. Payne. Each is un-
usually tall and very spare in build. Sen
ators Evarts and Reaga were born in the
same year-1S18. The Texas Senator is
much the younger looking, and weighs
in the neighborhood of two hundred and
fifty pounds, while the eminent New York
er is dwarfsh in appearance, and does
not weight over one hundred pounds.
Senator Evarts' clothes bag on him, and
he was never known to wear silk hat
just in the style. The Pennsylvania SEN
ators, Messrs. Cameron and Quay, were,
born in the same year-1S33, and are there
fore fifty-four years of age. Senators
Sawyer of Wisconsin, and Dawes, of
Massachusetts, are among the Oldest in
the Senate, both having been born
in 1916. Senators Hoar, of Mas
o,,tr a. -
are not as old as may be generally
supposed, the one having been born in
1926, the other in 1928 making them fifty
nine and sixty-one years of are respect
iveiy. Senators George, of Mississippi; !;
Stockbridge, of Michigan; Wilson, of
Iowa; Voorhees,, of Indiana; Ransom, of
North Carol ma, and Hawley, of Connecti-
cut. are about the same age as Senator
EdmInds, though the latter looks older,
possibly, than any Of them. A large pro-
portion of the Senators were born in the
twenties, and this grouping takes in
Senator Sherman, who was born in 1928.
There are not many very old men in the
House. Messrs. Kelley, Buckalew and
O'Neil, of Pennsylvania, are about the
oldest, having been born in 1914 and 1921
respectively. Messrs. Randall and Mills
York, is sixty four; Speaker Carlisle is
only fifty-two; Mr.. Breckenridge. of Ken
lucky, is two years his junior, but looks
older on account of his snow-white hair
and beard; Mr.. Reed, of Maine, the leader
of the Republicans, is only forty eight;
Mr. Mckinley, Of Ohio. is only fortv-
three, and Mr.. William Walter Phelps. of
New Jersey, is only forty-eight. Per-
~
are under fifty.
The youngest man in the House is Mr..
Phelan. of Tennessee, who was thirty one
on the 7th of the present month; and the
next youngest is Mr.. La Toilette. of Wis
consn, who was thirty two on June IA of
this year. La Toilette was the Youngest
member of the last House, and Ward, of
Chicago. was next youngest. Both Phelan
and La Toilette are wearing heavy black
boards, which give them the appearance
really of being older men than MesSrs.
Anderson, of Illinois, and Yost, of Vir.
ginia, who were both born in 1858, and
are therefore thirty-four years Of
age. Senator Kenna is still the youngest
of the Senators, being only thirty nine,
and his colleague, Senator Faulkner, is
the next Youngest, being forty, Senators
Daniel, Spooner and Rddleberger rank
next in vouthfulness, their ages being
fortv-two, fortv- three and forty-four, re.
spectively. OF Missourians in the House
only six of the fourteen are natives of the
State, viz: Messrs. Dockerv, Heard,
Hutton, O'Neill, Glover and Cardy,
Mansur, Burnes, Stone, Bland and Hatch,
though. have lived in Missouri so many
years that no one ever takes into consider
alton that they were born in other States.
Senator Cockrell is native through
and through by birth, education and resi-
dence. Senator Vest went to the State in
1853 from Kentucky, and if he is not more
Missourian than he is anv thing else no
one has ever remarked upon it. OF the
twenty Representatives from Illinois, only
two are natives of the State-Messrs.
Hopkins, of the Fifth district, and
Thomas, of the Twentieth district. Mr..
Cannon is "tarheel." being a native
of North Carolina. Mr.. Townshend.
Marylander; Mr.. Baker, Kentuckian;
Messrs. Anderson and Landes, Virgin
ians, and even Mr.. Springer was born
over in Indiana, but became resident of
Illinois when only twelve years of age.
Frank Lawler, of Chicago, is not a native
Irishman, as is generally supposed. hav-
ing been horn in Rochester, n ", or